sacramentalize

English

sacramentalize (third-person singular simple present sacramentalizes, present participle sacramentalizing, simple past and past participle sacramentalized)

(transitive, Christianity) To make sacramental.
- 2008, Marie A. Conn, C.S. Lewis and Human Suffering: Light Among the Shadows, HiddenSpring, page 18:
  Jack now sought to have their marriage sacramentalized, but the bishop refused.
- 2014, John Clark, “A Wedding Toast: Marriage, the Only Sacramentalized Relationship”, in Seton Magazine‎^[1]:
  Marriage is the only human relationship that is, or will ever be, sacramentalized.
(transitive, Catholicism) To receive the sacraments of the Catholic Church.
- 2019, Kathy Schiffer, Sacramentalized But Not Evangelized? Maybe You Just Forgot!‎^[2], National Catholic Register:
  A majority of American Catholics have been "sacramentalized," but never catechized or evangelized.